Sanctions with Teeth: Strengthening U.S. Sanctions Regimes to Target the Beneficiaries of Corruption and Human Rights Abuse Abroad

March 5, 2021 The Russia and Moldova Jackson-Vanik Repeal and Sergei Magnitsky Rule of Law Accountability Act of 2012 (Magnitsky Act) was, specifically, a bipartisan attempt to punish Russian officials responsible for the death of Sergei Magnitsky in 2009. More broadly, however, the globe-spanning act authorizes the United States government to sanction those that it